Podcast appearances and mentions of Linda Baker

Post-COVID-19, there's been a resurgence of interest in mixed-use neighborhoods, leading some cities to allow for small corner stores even in neighborhoods that are otherwise residential only. In this Upzoned episode, host Abby Newsham is joined by Norm Van Eeden Petersman, the director of membership and development for Strong Towns. They discuss the role that small corner stores play in local economies, the benefits of allowing residents to continue using and creating these kinds of businesses, and how to talk to your local government about allowing this kind of use in your own community. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Become a member today! “The Corner Store Comeback” by Linda Baker, Bloomberg (October 2024). Abby Newsham (X/Twitter). Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.

Today we explore the contentious debate on whether modern pet owners are unintentionally harming their pets by treating them too much like humans. Drawing from an article by Linda Baker in The New York Times, we discuss how actions such as confining pets in crates, limiting their freedom, and selectively breeding for desired traits can lead to health and behavioral issues. We reflect on personal experiences and societal trends, emphasizing the balance between human affection and the natural needs of pets. 00:00 Introduction and Silence 00:47 Headline: Are We Loving Our Pets to Death? 01:16 Personal Anecdotes and Initial Reactions 02:06 Statistics and Expert Opinions 03:04 The Modern Pet Paradox 03:27 Personal Experiences with Pets 06:13 Ethical Considerations and Breeding Issues 07:26 The Reality of Pet Ownership 11:01 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections   Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?   smarticlepodcast@gmail.com   #mosquitos #camping #mosquitoattraction #mosquitorepellant #bugs #pests #stingingandbitinginsects #smarticlepodcast #podcast #smarticle @Smarticleshow  @BDDoble @larryolson threads.net/@smarticleshow @brand.dobes The Smarticle Podcast  https://www.smarticlepodcast.com/

"Entre dos no pudimos cargar los hierros que mi madre partía con la boca". Angelita Villa causó sensación en los 70. Era la 'Mujer de hierro'. Hablamos con su hijo pequeño, JavierTodos conocemos a personas anónimas… absolutamente fascinantes. Personas con unas vidas y unas cualidades que son conocidas por su entorno más directo pero que no siempre llegan hasta el gran público. Angelita Villa fue una albaceteña de pro. Nació en Cenizate en el año 1931. Decía de sí misma que era una ‘manchega de pura cepa'. Estaba casada y tenía cuatro hijos. Aparentemente era una mujer corriente pero Angelita Villa tenía un alter ego: Linda Baker, la 'Mujer de Hierro' de Albacete. Esta manchega era capaz de arrastrar camiones con la fuerza de sus dientes o con su pelo. Se liberaba de camisas de fuerza. Partía barajas de naipes con las manos. Y todo ello, mientras criaba a sus cuatro hijos con su marido. El más pequeño de la prole se llama Javier Blay Villa y ha pasado por los micrófonos de Fin de Semana. Su madre empezó trabajando en una panadería, donde decían que era capaz de levantar sacos de harina de cien kilos sin demasiado esfuerzo. Pero no fue hasta que conoció en Valencia a su marido, Paco Blay, que comenzó la carrera profesional de Angelita Villa como Linda Baker: "Fue pionera en el atletismo femenino, ¡rompió moldes!"....

Arranca el próximo 8 de febrero, este año realizará casi 20 galas con más de 40 artistas, será en el Teatro Circo y rendirá tributo a Linda Baker, la conocida como 'mujer de hierro'. Natural de Cenizate, como nos ha contado Antonio Álvarez, director del festival

Dr Linda Baker visits the studio as we consider birth defects of the vagina... and the buccal mucosa vaginoplasty. Around 1 in 4,000 girls experience these birth defects, and using tissue from inside the mouth is less invasive than traditional repairs. We hope you can join us!

Dr Linda Baker visits the studio as we consider prune belly syndrome. Discover the cause, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, management and long-term outcomes of this rare condition. Learn how early diagnosis and intervention can make a big difference for these little patients. We hope you can join us!

Et si la vie de couple c'était passé de mode ? Si on pouvait se marier à soi-même ? L'idée peut sembler étrange et pourtant elle compte de plus en plus d'adeptes. A la base symbolique, le geste consistant à se passer la bague au doigt en a séduit plus d'un… ou plutôt plus d'une.  Dans l'imaginaire de la pop-culture, c'est Carrie Bradshaw, célèbre chroniqueuse de la série Sex And The City qui a popularisé l'idée de faire sa vie… avec elle-même. Si l'image peut sembler relever du cinéma, on dirait bien que de plus en plus de femmes se disent oui en solo. Dans le monde réel, la première femme a s'être dit oui à elle même c'est Linda Baker en 1993. Mais d'où ça vient ? Et la vie de couple alors ? Et ça fonctionne ? Écoutez la suite de cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez". Un podcast Bababam Originals, écrit et réalisé par Johanna Cincinatis. À écouter aussi : Sites pornographiques : pourquoi est-il si difficile de bloquer l'accès aux mineurs ? Qu'est-ce que la philosophie compétitive du Kiasu ? La réforme des retraites peut-elle vraiment passer ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introduction: Time: 0.10 - 1.08 Vadodra में Kshama Bindu नाम की एक 24 साल की लड़की ने 2 June को घोषणा की कि वो खुद से शादी करेंगी। नहीं ये कोई मज़ाक नहीं, 21वीं सदी के भारत की हकीकत है। उनका कहना है कि ये तो ‘self-love' है। ‘Self-love' यानी कि खुद से प्यार करना। । और ये कांसेप्ट खासा चर्चा का विषय बना हुआ ही, केवल भारत में ही नहीं बल्कि दुनिया भर में। आपको लग रहा होगा कि ये सोच अभी अभी की है, नई है, मगर पिछले कुछ सालों में इस तरीके की शादियों ने दुनिया-भर में लोगों को confuse कर के रखा है। आईये आज के एपिसोड में जानते हैं कि क्या होता है ‘Sologamy' का ये अद्भुत निराला कांसेप्ट  Body: Time: 1.12 - 6.13 नमस्कार, आदाब, सत्श्रीअकाल, मैं हूँ Sahiba Khan और आप सुन रहे हैं ABP Live Podcasts की पेशकश FYI यानी कि For Your Information. आज हम बात करेंगे एक ऐसे निराले concept की जो सुनने में अजीब-ओ-गरीब लगता है मगर कई पिछले कुछ वर्षों में इसने नौजवानों के बीच बहुत ज़ोर पकड़ा है। तो Kshama Bindu ने ऐलान किया है कि वो 11 जून को खुद से ब्याह रचाएंगी। मगर क्या होता है Sologamy का concept Sologamy का मतलब है एक पब्लिक यानी कि सार्वजनिक समारोह में खुद से शादी करना, जिसे स्व-विवाह या autogamy भी कहा जाता है। इस तरीके की शादी का किसी भी क़ानून में कोई ज़िक्र नहीं है और न ही इसे acceptable मन गया है। ये कह सकते हैं कि आजकल चल रहे ‘self-love' का ही extension है ये। दोस्तों self-love माने खुद से प्रेम करना। आपने शायद कई बार सुना होगा कि दूसरे में ख़ुशी ढूंढने से बेहतर पहले खुद से खुश रहना सीखना चाहिए। अब लोगों ने इसी मन्त्र पर ‘self-love' का concept निकाला है जिसमें आप खुद को सर्वोपरि मानते हैं। खुद का काम, खुद की ज़रूरतें, खुद के dreams , ambitions, ये सब ‘self-love'का ही हिस्सा है। कई लोग शायद इसे selfishness से confuse कर सकते हैं मगर अब चूँकि लोग हर चीज़ को question कर रहे हैं, उस पर सवाल उठा रहे हैं कि ऐसा है तो क्यों है, उसी के चलते लोग ये भी पूछ रहे हैं कि आखिर क्यों  पीछे रखा जाए, क्यों अपनी ज़रूरतों को किसी और के लिए नज़रअंदाज़ किया जाए। सवाल एकदम लाज़मी है। सालों से लोग जो मानते आ रहे हैं, उस पर भी सवाल उठाना ज़रूरी है। ‘self-love' का कांसेप्ट भी वहीँ से आता है और ये एक तरीके से आपकी स्वतंत्रता और आत्म-प्रेम को जताने का तरीका बन गया है।  मगर ये ट्रेंड आख़िर कब शुरू हुआ? 1993 में Linda Baker नाम की एक दांतों की डॉक्टर ने अमेरिका में खुद से सबसे पहली बार शादी रचाई थी। जी हाँ आज से करीब 29 साल पहले। उस शादी में Baker के 75 दोस्त भी शामिल हुए थे जहाँ Baker ने publicly एक wedding ceremony रखी जहाँ उन्होंने खुद को ‘I do' बोला और शादी के वादों में सिर्फ खुद को रखा। उन्होंने कहा कि मैं हर बीमारी से लेकर सिख-दुःख में अपना साथ दूंगी।   मज़े की बात तो ये है कि पिछले साल  33 वर्षीय Cris Galera ने अपने साथ किया गया Sologamy विवाह मात्र 90 दिनों में तोड़ दिया था और कहा था कि वो खुद को तलाख दे रही हैं क्योंकि उन्हें किसी और से प्यार हो गया है।  मगर ये जो ceremony समारोह की बात चल रही है, तो आप भी शायद curious होंगी कि इन functions में होता क्या है। चलिए वो भी बताती हूँ  इन विवाहों में को भी social norms या rules नहीं होते। जैसे हमने अपने आस-पास शादियां देखीं हैं, ये शादियां भी वैसी ही हो सकती हैं या रस्मों में कुछ फेरबदल हो सकता है। हाँ ये बात है कि जब से ये trend आया है, कई लोग ये service देने लगे हैं, खासकर कि बहार के देशों में ये चलन ज़ोर पकड़ रहा है।  Canada में ‘Marry Yourself' नाम की संस्था ऐसी शादियों में लोगों को सुझाव देती है, उनके लिए सभी तैयारियां करती हैं। San Francisco में IMarriedMe.com भी यही काम करते हैं। ये लोग sologamy wedding kits भी देते हैं जिसमें आपके लिए bands होते हैं, खुद से आप क्या वादे करेंगे वो होते हैं। Kyoto नाम की जगह पर तो Cerca Travel नाम की कम्पनी 2 दिन का self-wedding package भी देती है।  वडोदरा की Bindu का कहना है कि अपनी शादी में वो फेरे से लेकर सिंदूर तक, सभी चीज़ें शामिल करेंगी।  मगर दुनिया भर में ये चलन आख़िर क्यों ज़ोर पकड़ रहा है ? Marry Yourself Vancouver की founder Alexandra Gill ने CBC News को बताया कि “आज, इतिहास में पहली बार, महिलाएं अपने दम पर जीने, अपना करियर बनाने, अपना घर खरीदने, अपना जीवन बनाने, बच्चे पैदा करने का खर्च उठा सकती हैं, उसके बारे में खुद से सोच सकती हैं। हमारी मां और दादी-नानी या उनसे पुरानी पीढ़ी के पास यह विकल्प नहीं था।” वो आगे कहती हैं कि, “Sologamy शादी भले ही खुद से शादी करना होता हो मगर ये तरीका उस स्टिग्मा, उस कलंक को भी हटाता है कि अकेली औरत दुखी होती है, झगड़ालु और तनहा होती है। औरतें शायद अब इस समझ से तंग आ चुकी हैं कि अगर उनकी शादी नहीं हुई है तो वो एक failure है, और शादी करने की उम्र होती है जिसके बाद उनका कुछ नहीं हो सकता।” Conclusion: Time:6.15 - 8.02 सुनने में तो आपको और मुझे भी शुरुआत में ये concept हज़म सा नहीं हो रहा था मगर अब मुझे समझ आ रहा है कि Sologamy सिर्फ एक अजीब रस्म नहीं बल्कि खुद से किया हुआ वादा है कि आप खुद को हमेशा सुखी, आत्म-निर्भर और खुश रखेंगी। Quirkyalone की लेखक Sasha Cagen कहती हैं कि जब भी उन्होंने कसी ऐसी औरत से बात की जिसने Sologamy रचाई है, उन सभी में एक चीज़ समान थी - उनको अपना ख्याल ऐसे रखना है जैसे कोई पति या चाहने वाला उनका ख्याल रखता हो। Sologamy इसलिए भी क्योंकि सालों से शादी के संबंधों में औरतें अपनी इच्छाएं और आकांक्षाओं का गला घोंटते हुए आ रही हैं। ये शादी पहली ऐसी है जिसमें खुद को ऊपर और सर्वोपरि रखना ज़रूरी है। भले ही 1993 में ऐसी शादी सामने आई हो मगर Hollywood इस concept से खासा वाक़िफ़ है। Sex and the City के एक एपिसोड में शो की हीरोइन Carrie Bradshaw को Sologamy करते हुए दिखाया गया था, Glee और Doctor Who नाम के shows में भी इसका ज़िक्र देखने को मिलता है। तो ऐसा नहीं है कि ये concept आज ही आया है। Concept तो बहुत पहले से था, बस आज उसे एक नाम दिया गया है और technology और social media के ज़रिये अब ये ट्रेंड कर रहा है और बाक़ी देशों जैसे भारत में प्रचलन में आ रहा है। देखना होगा कि Bindu के मां-बाप, उनका परिवार इसे कैसे समझता है, क्या भारत में हमें ऐसी और शादियां देखने को मिलेंगी? पता नहीं। क्या आप ऐसी शादी को accept करेंगे? क्या लगता है आपको, हमें ज़रूर बताएं। ABP Live Podcasts के ट्विटर पेज पर जा कर हमें tweet करें और अपनी राय हमें बताएं। फिलहाल मैं चलती हूँ और अब अगले FYI में आपसे मिलूंगी। मुझे इजाज़त दें, मैं हूँ Sahiba Khan, podcast की sound-designing की है Lalit ने और आप सुन रहे थे ABP Live Podcasts की पेशकश - FYI Host: @jhansiserani Sound designing: @lalit1121992

Introduction: Time: 0.10 - 1.08 Vadodra में Kshama Bindu नाम की एक 24 साल की लड़की ने 2 June को घोषणा की कि वो खुद से शादी करेंगी। नहीं ये कोई मज़ाक नहीं, 21वीं सदी के भारत की हकीकत है। उनका कहना है कि ये तो ‘self-love' है। ‘Self-love' यानी कि खुद से प्यार करना। । और ये कांसेप्ट खासा चर्चा का विषय बना हुआ ही, केवल भारत में ही नहीं बल्कि दुनिया भर में। आपको लग रहा होगा कि ये सोच अभी अभी की है, नई है, मगर पिछले कुछ सालों में इस तरीके की शादियों ने दुनिया-भर में लोगों को confuse कर के रखा है। आईये आज के एपिसोड में जानते हैं कि क्या होता है ‘Sologamy' का ये अद्भुत निराला कांसेप्ट  Body: Time: 1.12 - 6.13 नमस्कार, आदाब, सत्श्रीअकाल, मैं हूँ Sahiba Khan और आप सुन रहे हैं ABP Live Podcasts की पेशकश FYI यानी कि For Your Information. आज हम बात करेंगे एक ऐसे निराले concept की जो सुनने में अजीब-ओ-गरीब लगता है मगर कई पिछले कुछ वर्षों में इसने नौजवानों के बीच बहुत ज़ोर पकड़ा है। तो Kshama Bindu ने ऐलान किया है कि वो 11 जून को खुद से ब्याह रचाएंगी। मगर क्या होता है Sologamy का concept Sologamy का मतलब है एक पब्लिक यानी कि सार्वजनिक समारोह में खुद से शादी करना, जिसे स्व-विवाह या autogamy भी कहा जाता है। इस तरीके की शादी का किसी भी क़ानून में कोई ज़िक्र नहीं है और न ही इसे acceptable मन गया है। ये कह सकते हैं कि आजकल चल रहे ‘self-love' का ही extension है ये। दोस्तों self-love माने खुद से प्रेम करना। आपने शायद कई बार सुना होगा कि दूसरे में ख़ुशी ढूंढने से बेहतर पहले खुद से खुश रहना सीखना चाहिए। अब लोगों ने इसी मन्त्र पर ‘self-love' का concept निकाला है जिसमें आप खुद को सर्वोपरि मानते हैं। खुद का काम, खुद की ज़रूरतें, खुद के dreams , ambitions, ये सब ‘self-love'का ही हिस्सा है। कई लोग शायद इसे selfishness से confuse कर सकते हैं मगर अब चूँकि लोग हर चीज़ को question कर रहे हैं, उस पर सवाल उठा रहे हैं कि ऐसा है तो क्यों है, उसी के चलते लोग ये भी पूछ रहे हैं कि आखिर क्यों  पीछे रखा जाए, क्यों अपनी ज़रूरतों को किसी और के लिए नज़रअंदाज़ किया जाए। सवाल एकदम लाज़मी है। सालों से लोग जो मानते आ रहे हैं, उस पर भी सवाल उठाना ज़रूरी है। ‘self-love' का कांसेप्ट भी वहीँ से आता है और ये एक तरीके से आपकी स्वतंत्रता और आत्म-प्रेम को जताने का तरीका बन गया है।  मगर ये ट्रेंड आख़िर कब शुरू हुआ? 1993 में Linda Baker नाम की एक दांतों की डॉक्टर ने अमेरिका में खुद से सबसे पहली बार शादी रचाई थी। जी हाँ आज से करीब 29 साल पहले। उस शादी में Baker के 75 दोस्त भी शामिल हुए थे जहाँ Baker ने publicly एक wedding ceremony रखी जहाँ उन्होंने खुद को ‘I do' बोला और शादी के वादों में सिर्फ खुद को रखा। उन्होंने कहा कि मैं हर बीमारी से लेकर सिख-दुःख में अपना साथ दूंगी।   मज़े की बात तो ये है कि पिछले साल  33 वर्षीय Cris Galera ने अपने साथ किया गया Sologamy विवाह मात्र 90 दिनों में तोड़ दिया था और कहा था कि वो खुद को तलाख दे रही हैं क्योंकि उन्हें किसी और से प्यार हो गया है।  मगर ये जो ceremony समारोह की बात चल रही है, तो आप भी शायद curious होंगी कि इन functions में होता क्या है। चलिए वो भी बताती हूँ  इन विवाहों में को भी social norms या rules नहीं होते। जैसे हमने अपने आस-पास शादियां देखीं हैं, ये शादियां भी वैसी ही हो सकती हैं या रस्मों में कुछ फेरबदल हो सकता है। हाँ ये बात है कि जब से ये trend आया है, कई लोग ये service देने लगे हैं, खासकर कि बहार के देशों में ये चलन ज़ोर पकड़ रहा है।  Canada में ‘Marry Yourself' नाम की संस्था ऐसी शादियों में लोगों को सुझाव देती है, उनके लिए सभी तैयारियां करती हैं। San Francisco में IMarriedMe.com भी यही काम करते हैं। ये लोग sologamy wedding kits भी देते हैं जिसमें आपके लिए bands होते हैं, खुद से आप क्या वादे करेंगे वो होते हैं। Kyoto नाम की जगह पर तो Cerca Travel नाम की कम्पनी 2 दिन का self-wedding package भी देती है।  वडोदरा की Bindu का कहना है कि अपनी शादी में वो फेरे से लेकर सिंदूर तक, सभी चीज़ें शामिल करेंगी।  मगर दुनिया भर में ये चलन आख़िर क्यों ज़ोर पकड़ रहा है ? Marry Yourself Vancouver की founder Alexandra Gill ने CBC News को बताया कि “आज, इतिहास में पहली बार, महिलाएं अपने दम पर जीने, अपना करियर बनाने, अपना घर खरीदने, अपना जीवन बनाने, बच्चे पैदा करने का खर्च उठा सकती हैं, उसके बारे में खुद से सोच सकती हैं। हमारी मां और दादी-नानी या उनसे पुरानी पीढ़ी के पास यह विकल्प नहीं था।” वो आगे कहती हैं कि, “Sologamy शादी भले ही खुद से शादी करना होता हो मगर ये तरीका उस स्टिग्मा, उस कलंक को भी हटाता है कि अकेली औरत दुखी होती है, झगड़ालु और तनहा होती है। औरतें शायद अब इस समझ से तंग आ चुकी हैं कि अगर उनकी शादी नहीं हुई है तो वो एक failure है, और शादी करने की उम्र होती है जिसके बाद उनका कुछ नहीं हो सकता।” Conclusion: Time:6.15 - 8.02 सुनने में तो आपको और मुझे भी शुरुआत में ये concept हज़म सा नहीं हो रहा था मगर अब मुझे समझ आ रहा है कि Sologamy सिर्फ एक अजीब रस्म नहीं बल्कि खुद से किया हुआ वादा है कि आप खुद को हमेशा सुखी, आत्म-निर्भर और खुश रखेंगी। Quirkyalone की लेखक Sasha Cagen कहती हैं कि जब भी उन्होंने कसी ऐसी औरत से बात की जिसने Sologamy रचाई है, उन सभी में एक चीज़ समान थी - उनको अपना ख्याल ऐसे रखना है जैसे कोई पति या चाहने वाला उनका ख्याल रखता हो। Sologamy इसलिए भी क्योंकि सालों से शादी के संबंधों में औरतें अपनी इच्छाएं और आकांक्षाओं का गला घोंटते हुए आ रही हैं। ये शादी पहली ऐसी है जिसमें खुद को ऊपर और सर्वोपरि रखना ज़रूरी है। भले ही 1993 में ऐसी शादी सामने आई हो मगर Hollywood इस concept से खासा वाक़िफ़ है। Sex and the City के एक एपिसोड में शो की हीरोइन Carrie Bradshaw को Sologamy करते हुए दिखाया गया था, Glee और Doctor Who नाम के shows में भी इसका ज़िक्र देखने को मिलता है। तो ऐसा नहीं है कि ये concept आज ही आया है। Concept तो बहुत पहले से था, बस आज उसे एक नाम दिया गया है और technology और social media के ज़रिये अब ये ट्रेंड कर रहा है और बाक़ी देशों जैसे भारत में प्रचलन में आ रहा है। देखना होगा कि Bindu के मां-बाप, उनका परिवार इसे कैसे समझता है, क्या भारत में हमें ऐसी और शादियां देखने को मिलेंगी? पता नहीं। क्या आप ऐसी शादी को accept करेंगे? क्या लगता है आपको, हमें ज़रूर बताएं। ABP Live Podcasts के ट्विटर पेज पर जा कर हमें tweet करें और अपनी राय हमें बताएं। फिलहाल मैं चलती हूँ और अब अगले FYI में आपसे मिलूंगी। मुझे इजाज़त दें, मैं हूँ Sahiba Khan, podcast की sound-designing की है Lalit ने और आप सुन रहे थे ABP Live Podcasts की पेशकश - FYI Host: @jhansiserani Sound designing: @lalit1121992

Our sermon series ends with a sermon from Steve Irwin, Carmen Harper, and Joe Lay along with a testimony from Linda Baker.

Our sermon series ends with a sermon from Steve Irwin, Carmen Harper, and Joe Lay along with a testimony from Linda Baker.

Have you ever asked: “Am I doing this parenting thing right?” It can feel at times that we are wading through uncharted territory with little to no guidance, particularly if our children have additional needs or challenges. Luckily, running your own parenting race is usually the best approach. Linda Baker, Speech Pathologist and ADHD advocate, joins Lauren Haskins of A Growing Understanding Speech Pathology to talk about how we can support our children, no matter their needs, and how to move away from a negative approach to parenting. By ignoring misinformation, Linda encourages parents to focus on the positives and our children’s strengths. Offering a special insight into attention challenges and the link between inattention and language, Lauren and Linda will help you understand how to meet your child’s needs and feel comfortable with your approach to parenting. Want to be on the podcast or reach out? Go here. Proudly produced by Newcastle Podcast Station. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What got us to where we are and what can we do to make our personal life and the lives of others better? This book addresses these questions and provides understanding plus numerous actions you can take beginning today to make your world a happier and more peaceful place. Learn how to focus on what you desire your life to be so you can free yourself from anxiety and depression and live a more fulfilled life. Linda Baker, R.N., C.H.T. is a Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapy Trainer who has studied various forms of healing including Reiki, the Reconnection and Pranic Healing and has taught classes in Alchemical Hypnotherapy in the United States and Japan.. Growing up in Massachusetts, Linda has always felt a connection with God and spirituality and began her career as a psychiatric nurse. After discovering Alchemical Hypnotherapy in 1984 Linda has been working with her clients from a more spiritual place to encourage growth and enable healing. She has authored two books; Soul Contracts: How They Affect Your Life and Your Relationships - Past Life Therapy to Change Your Present Life and The Bridge Between Worlds - The Miracle of Following the Heart. She has additionally co-authored Alchemical Scents: Integrating Hypnosis and Essential Oils. http://www.innersourceseattle.com/InnersourceSeattle/home.html ------------------------------------------------- Path 11 TV is Here! While our live launch party is over, we have already begun planning our December and January events, so stay tuned! Remember, if you already have an annual membership, you can attend these future events for free.  As of this moment, we have over 75 hours of premium videos, along with over 20 hours of free podcast videos available at path11tv.com,with new videos added weekly.  Path 11 TV's introductory annual pricing of $59 has been extended to the end of the year.    Not sure if you want to commit to a full year? Try out our monthly subscription rate of $9.99, but if you use promo code PODCAST25, you will be able to discount your first three months by 25%. -------------------------------------- Check out our new podcast Mind Benders!   mindbenderspodcast.com Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts Submit your mind-bending story by emailing mindbenders@path11productions.com or by calling 1-323-713-1113 -------------------- Dr. Eric Pearl and Jillian Fleer https://www.thereconnection.com Be sure to use coupon code PATH2PORTAL on checkout, to take 25% of your purchase of the portal.

"I've read a lot into behavioral psychology, and one thing that is appreciated across the board regardless of the therapist or psychologist is that you change the environment, you change the behavior." John Fitch I'm Douglas Ferguson, and I'm on a mission to help people everywhere have better meetings. There's clear evidence that poorly run meetings not only waste time, but they also squander a lot of money. A recent report by Doodle found that $541 billion is lost globally every year on common meeting mistakes–and that's just the report from the County for Direct Labor Costs. This staggering amount translates into opportunity costs we incur from ineffective meetings. I'm excited to have John Fitch with me today! John is the CPO at Voltage Control and the author of Time Off. John is an author, business model generator, and prototype creator. He enjoys deep, intentional work that leads to the facilitation of new ideas and business models. John is a big fan of compartmentalization, especially with work colleagues, projects, and phases of projects. He stresses the importance of reflection and the design lens of conversation. John believes that compartmentalizing takes conversation design, "which I admit, I'm not a pro at, but I know that to compartmentalize we need to talk about it, have a language about it. I think it's fascinating," he says.  With COVID-19 and many of us working from home, John stresses the importance of having clearly compartmentalized spaces. "Now, if work is in your home and you haven't developed a rest ethic and have yours defined, and you're intentional about it, now that work is at home, it can be surrounding you at all times." Learning how to take time off can be an investment in many ways. It can help create new ideas and turn activities into meditation time, to name a few. Time off can also bring you awareness of what you do in a space of rest so that you can be intentional about how you spend time away from work. Find out why you should use breaks in your projects or meetings, how our days can be dictated by our emotional behaviors, and how you can have boot-up and boot-down time for your creative process.   Show Highlights [01:45] Time Off–the book and what it means to have a Rest Ethic. [02:22] Compartmentalizing work matters. [04:25] Doing specific tasks in your own space can help with compartmentalization. [07:29] Use your transition time commuting as a slow interstitial time-off switch. [08:05] Superhuman and it’s relevance to complexity theory. [08:54] Driving and music can be a form of meditation. [10:57] Incubation and the process of stepping away from the thing you are trying to achieve leads to more success.  [13:02] Use exercise to think through challenges–John’s interview with Terry Rudolph, a Quantum Physicist. [18:20] Build intentional time into your schedule for rest during meetings or projects. [21:31] Emotional triggers, both positive and negative, lead to a biased judgment of work. [26:15] Utilizing rest time requires a transition period and acclimation periods. [30:27] How John upgraded his business through time off and a real-life example from his book. [32:15] Intentionally plan time off and give others a heads up that you are planning to be disconnected. [34:17] When you lead a room, read others and be prepared to facilitate. [38:24] John’s recommendations to leaders for facilitating better meetings. [42:25] How you should reframe activities in your own mind. Links and Resources John Fitch Time Off  Time Off Podcast About the Guest John Fitch is a maker who loves tinkering and building prototypes of products and businesses. “When new ideas aren't successful, it’s usually because a team was overconfident about how well customers and users would understand the idea and how much they would perceive its value.” He specializes in enabling teams to receive customer and user reactions before making any expensive commitments. This process involves a lot of play, unlearning, and empathy. About Voltage Control Voltage Control is a facilitation agency that helps teams work better together with custom-designed meetings and workshops, both in-person and virtual. Our master facilitators offer trusted guidance and custom coaching to companies who want to transform ineffective meetings, reignite stalled projects, and cut through assumptions. Based in Austin, Voltage Control designs and leads public and private workshops that range from small meetings to large conference-style gatherings.  Share An Episode of Control The Room Apple Podcasts Spotify Android Stitcher Engage Control The Room Voltage Control on the Web Contact Voltage Control Intro: Welcome to the Control the Room Podcast, a series devoted to the exploration of meeting culture and uncovering cures for the common meeting. Some meetings have tight control, and others are loose. To control the room means achieving outcomes while striking a balance between imposing and removing structure, asserting and distributing power, leaning in and leaning out, all in the service of having a truly magical meeting. Douglas: I’m super excited to have John Fitch on the show this week. And John Fitch is the chief product officer at Voltage Control and the author of Time Off. Welcome to the show, John. John: Douglas, it's an honor to be on a podcast episode with you, deep in conversation. And it's also one of those classic funny lines where they're like, “Hey, it's been a while,” whereas right before recording this, you and I were prototyping some cool stuff. So it’s cool, then, to transition from the intensity, deep work of prototyping to a more casual conversation. Douglas: In a way, this casual conversation comes off as a bit of time off compared to the deep, intentional work that's required for facilitation. John: Well said. And you said a word there that is really important. You said intentional. And in the book Time Off and the whole point of view I have is we talk about it's important to have a work ethic, and we just proved that, prototyping some awesome software. We did it with an intentional work ethic. And having an intentional rest ethic is what the book Time Off is all about. So you’re right. And time off can be active, which is another, I think, eye opener for our readers. It doesn't just mean vegging out on the couch, which is totally fine, that's a form of time off, but sometimes stopping what you're doing and just having an awesome conversation with a colleague, a friend. In this case, you're both of those. So, yeah. Good point. Douglas: Excellent. And I want to get to your background a little bit. But before we do, I love this notion of being able to be friends and colleagues at the same time. And I think there is this notion of compartmentalization that's so important to be able to do those things. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this notion of compartmentalization. John: I think it’s fantastic to compartmentalize lots of things. And especially with those you work with, but it's important to compartmentalize the projects, and what phase is it in. I think we've talked many times before in our facilitation coaching that it's important to look at your meeting culture through seasons. That's a compartmentalization, right? You've decided, hey, right now we're in a season of production, or we're in a season of reflection or redesign or growth. And all of those have been intentionally compartmentalized. And so I think across relationships, that's really important. But also within your company culture, within yourself, you've got to compartmentalize parts of yourself. Like, I can't necessarily bring the version of me that's going out hunting and hiking to every prototyping session I have. And so I think that mindfulness and that internal check in, both for yourself but also across your team, is just, you know, that's the beauty of reflection and intention. So I think it's cool to just simply talk about it. And I know you've had Daniel Stillman on the podcast and so cool to just think about the design lens of conversation. And to your point, compartmentalizing things, I think takes a lot of amazing conversation design that I know I'm not a pro at. But I know that to compartmentalize, we've got to talk about it, we have to have a language about it. So I think it's fascinating. Douglas: You know, it's interesting you bring up this notion of hunting or fishing, and I think exercise can play a role there, these things that have a space associated with them. You go to do those things in that space tend to help with compartmentalization because you can think of that it serves a purpose. Right at the beginning of COVID, I read some really fascinating writings by psychologists that were saying to really think about how you redesign your space and the purpose each room has for you so that you can still compartmentalize your life, even though you're confined to a much smaller, let's say, footprint. John: Yeah. It’s fascinating. I've been thinking about now, since Time Off is out, you have friends and readers who reach out, and they’re like, “Hey, have you thought about what you're writing next?” And in regard to the whole Time Off sort of franchise, if I'm to use that word, I think a natural follow up would be time on and intentional time on. And then a book title that I'm the most excited about regarding what you just said would be a title something like Time Away. I, too, have read a lot into behavioral psychology, and one thing that is pretty much appreciated across the board, regardless of the therapist or psychologist, is you change the environment, you change the behavior. And that's so fascinating. And, yeah, right now we're all limited. You and I can't both just pack our bags and go to Ireland. Well, I mean, I guess we could, but probably not smart at the moment. But just by changing things up in your own house. I remember—remind me of Linda's last name, who spoke at Control the Room. Douglas: Linda Baker. John: Yeah. Linda Baker. She gave a presentation on feng shui, and I think that's under that lens of energy design, space design. And it is amazing if you just rearrange things. And I know I've been on so many Zoom calls with you. You’ve really transformed your office, I assume for the better. But all of those intentional environment changes have, I would assume, changed your behavior. Would you say so? Douglas: Absolutely. You know, I’ve created stations, if you will, within my house, so that each spot’s almost like traveling to a new—it's like a replica of what I had previously. I've got the space where I'm doing workshops. I got the space where I’m boxing and doing Pilates. I got the space where I'm eating. I got the space where I'm relaxing, and I got the place where I'm sleeping. I try to keep those responsibilities delineated and compartmentalized so I can be very intentional about what I'm going to do and how I spend that time. John: And that’s really important. I think that's one thing I've been thinking a lot about with the pandemic. In some ways, it was a big, forced time off for some people, depending on their context. But also, I didn't really think about this because it'd been so long since I had the lifestyle of, oh, I go to a workplace. I work. I leave. I go home. A lot of people that going home, that interstitial time, was sort of a slow time-off switch. Like, they were going home, and when they went home, they were able to leave work at the office and home is home, and that's a clear compartmentalization. Whereas now if work is in your home and you haven't developed, as we call it, a rest ethic and have yours defined and you're intentional about it, now that work’s at home, it could just be surrounding you at all times. Douglas: Yeah. It’s not only the compartmentalization you're describing, it's the transition. And, you know, in complexity theory, whenever we're talking about complexity theory, one of the examples I love to give is Superman. Superman doesn't turn from Clark Kent into Superman instantaneously. He goes into the phone booth and changes. And likewise, when we're moving from simple to complicated or complex, we can't just transition from those domains instantaneously. We have to go through some transformation and recall that disorder. And I know for a fact I used to—I live out in the country, and my drive home, I always planned it so that I would never be stuck, because I hate sitting still in traffic, but I love driving. And just the motion, my thoughts form and dissolve and reform. And it's a great way for me to, I think, it's almost like active meditation. We've talked about this before, John. John: I’m curious. Is there a particular playlist or something you would listen to in that transition time? Douglas: You know, it's interesting, John. You know I have very eclectic music tastes, and so I have about, gosh, I don’t even know what the total is. I think it’s somewhere in the realm of, like, 500,000 songs on a USB thumb drive. And it’s amazing because it used to be that back in the day, it was like a wall full of CDs. I still have a whole shelfful of albums, but now I have this thumb drive that's like the size of a—I mean, it's so tiny. It's maybe two centimeters or something. It’s the tiniest little thumb drive. And I just put it on random. And the nice thing about listening to a really eclectic database of music on random, I can always skip something if I'm not in the mood for it. But it's the weird serendipities of things that flow from one thing to another. And I might be on a thread of thought, and then it totally changes my gears because it intercepts where I'm at and re-shifts me. So I kind of like being taken on a journey that I'm not having to plan, that I'm not having to put thought into, and I just flow with it.   John: I like it. It’s like the audio version of Google's Feeling Lucky feature. I mean, that's a cool environment change. I mean, it's your audio’s mind space. You're just allowing serendipity. And I actually think that has a lot of beautiful correlation to our book Time Off, which a lot of times people who haven't talked to me or read the book when I just surface level tell them, “Yeah, I wrote this book,” they’re like, “Oh, that’s cool. You wrote a book on vacations,” and I’m like, “No, no, no, no. It’s our goal, my coauthor’s and I’s goal, is to really expand the connotation of time off, not just being vacation from work.” It’s micropractices. And why it’s important is we looked at the creative process, and there’s four phases of it. And one of the phases that’s absolutely essential is called incubation, and it’s when you’re not actively working on the thing you’re trying to achieve. It’s by stepping away from it, by doing something else. Again, that could be something very passive. It could be something very active, like an intense workout. The point is, is your subconscious and other parts of your brain are able to work in the background in those moments.   And so what I like about your random music selection is that is a form of incubation that—well, you’re driving, so you can’t really actively code or do  any of your workshop facilitation work, but you're able to be an open channel. And so those sounds come through, and who knows what memories that ignites, and one idea can flow into the next. And I know a type A personality like me really benefited from changing my perspective of time off of this, like, I'm not working to, like, no, it's actually a very productive practice for an investment in better ideas or an investment to an epiphany, perhaps. So I like that you’re just opening it up. You don't know what's going to come. Douglas: Yes. It's really fantastic. And one of my other favorite active-meditation techniques is actually just going to the gym and just having my sauna time, getting into a groove of—there’s a Pilates routine that I kind of developed out of my greatest hits, the things I really, really like. There’s a spine corrector and some different exercises on the Cadillac that I've done so many times that I don’t even have to think about what's next. I just go in there and I flow through it. I'll do that as a warmup, as a way of stretching and getting ready to do something more intense. And an hour will just evaporate. I'm not thinking about much of anything. And I found that time to be very valuable, and I miss it terribly because it's really hard to recreate that at home. John: It's really cool that you brought up exercise. That's one of the many deep dives in our book Time Off, and it reminds me of—we interviewed this quantum physicist named Terry Rudolph. And exercise is a really big part of his rest ethic, and he gave us—each person we interview, we ask them to give very practical advice for the reader to immediately try. And his was—and you could replace the word run with any kind of movement. But he essentially said, look, run hard to empty your mind, or jog slowly to think through a problem without distractions. And so he essentially told us, if you need to clear your mind, go really hard. So that could be your high-intensity workouts. And challenge yourself so that you're not able to think about anything, basically. And you just kind of get lost on focusing on not dying in that high-intensity activity. So it's, in a way, you’re unplugged for a while and getting back to the body. Or as, if you want to use a workout as productivity, you could set some clear intentions or questions to contemplate in advance, and then use that time off exercising to really give you a macro view. So that could be, like, as you've told me, in the sauna or in Pilates, where it is active, you're definitely working out, but there's enough space in there for you to dream up, have a macro view. And so I think that's a cool oscillation of intention. And also, that analogy could be made to a work project. There's times where, like today, actually, you and I were prototyping. You can only do that for so long, just like you can only sprint for so long on the Treadmill, or you can only stay in the really intense, infrared sauna for so long. And so it's just being aware of that oscillation and intentional about it to reap the benefits and not just choosing and obsessing over one. Douglas: That’s right. And I think that it's another thing to think about how you might hijack some of the systems to do things that you might need, because you, not to overuse the word hijacking, but imagine your emotions. Your brain chemistry is hijacking you at the moment. Well, then going for a really long run, in a way, you're kind of depriving yourself of oxygen, because everything's just devoted to surviving that intensity. Whatever weird conversation you just had with someone that didn't sit well, that's going to all be history. And so then you'll be in a much better headspace to analyze it, synthesize it, and address it. So that's interesting. Time off can be both micro and macro, I guess. John: I’m curious. That's a good point. So I'm just, in real time, I know you have a ton of experience in music and especially in synthesizers and other instruments. I mean, you've helped produce music. And if you think about it, time off is essential in music, too. Time off between certain notes gives you a rhythm. Time off from one section of the orchestra is important to evoke a certain emotion. I'm curious in, like, synthesizer space, is time off an important part of your whole setup? I’m just totally randomly curious about that. Douglas: Yeah. It's no different than other music, right? You’ve got micro timing, which, to bring it back to the micro and macro, you’ve got these moments with inside the melody itself, where literally—and if we want to really break it back down to the voltages, the voltage is either on or it's off. If the voltage was on the entire time, nothing would happen, because the system would just be totally primed. You'd imagine it would just be complete stress, right? So in order to have anything interesting happen, it needs to oscillate up and down. So the voltage goes positive and it goes negative. Or if it's d.c., it goes just positive and zero. And that's where you get these really cool modulations, where really stuff interesting happens. But I think if you were going to really bring it back to work and life and habits and how we keep our brains healthy, we also need to think about the frequency of isolation, because I would argue that even if you're having too much rest and the contact switch alone could be exhausting, just switching between turn it on and off. So I think that the frequency is important to having it too fast, the duration too short, and then switch is too fast, it's probably equally harmful. John: Hm. You and I have been conductors of a lot of rooms. It's been a great honor we’re able to learn so much when we do that. I'm curious before I go in, because I've contemplated it for a few years, putting the book together, but in your own master facilitation, whether it's a large-group gathering or a small team or a design sprint, Douglas, how have you used time off as a function as a facilitator? Anything come to mind? Douglas: Well, yeah. I mean, there's the cardinal rule of the 90-minute break. We don't want to go over 90 minutes before we have breaks, and making sure that that's written into the agenda and being very strict about seeing to that. Also, just time away from the material can be really powerful, whether that's by design—we build something into the agenda for us to kind of take a tour around through something different. It's exactly the reason why you might do improv games or icebreakers and these types of things, where we intentionally want to move the energy or the patterns through the room. And it's definitely an amazing tool when things get uncomfortable, and it's unproductively uncomfortable, and we can call a break. We can use that time to let people disperse and then come back together at a time. It's similar to going on that sprint, letting the emotions discharge so that we can come back together when people are a little less emotional or a little less spun up. John: Yeah. It reminds me when I was in film school, we took this class, and I was really focused on being a producer, which was kind of the business mind, the coordinator of the project. But in order to do that, you had to take editing, and you had to take directing. And I remember being really fascinated by, in our directing class, one of the biggest tips we heard from renowned filmmakers was if you're the director, I think on average, it was like two or three months was the minimum recommended from when your filming ended, so all of your production of the live action footage, etc. Two to three months between that and when you sat down the first time with your editor, because you needed to be detached from the material, because there may have been a particular shot, a particular line, a particular character, that in that time of production you were just really excited about personally and in detaching from a while allowed their advice. And I definitely, when I was producing documentaries, benefited from this advice, that by the time you had been so detached, you were able to really reflect and kind of come to the material new again and work with the editor from the perspective, more of a new viewer versus someone who's been deep in the weeds for a long time. Douglas: Yeah, that’s interesting. I feel like the weeds could cause a couple of problems. If I were to bring it back to design sprints, it's a reason that we encourage people not to do any synthesis at the end of day five. So if you've done interviews all day, you're going to be suffering from recency bias from the most recent interview. Just go clear your head over the weekend and come back. Take that time off to let it all just dissipate, disassociate from whatever happened. It was much more effective. And John, it makes me wonder. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think there could be things around emotional triggers that are—I mean, maybe that scene was filmed on your birthday. People were giving you lots of Happy Birthdays and encouragement; maybe you got a cool gift from someone. Or maybe you found out your grandmother was sick the day this other scene was filmed. And so could you have these associations with them that are subconscious, where you might judge them in ways that aren’t accurate? John: Oh, that's certainly the reason you need a team, because of that complexity of influences. And I actually wish that I would have known how much that my film-school experience would have prepared me to work in software and design. I had no idea. I think I would have been much more intentional as a student because we had these—and I mean, you and I do them all the time, working together, and we help organizations get comfortable with doing them. We just have a different language for it—but in film school, we call them design crits, “crits” short for critique. And you would show up with your work in progress, a.k.a. a prototype; and you would sit there with about eight to nine others; show the 90 seconds, four-minute clip, whatever the professor allowed for. I mean, you had to get good at taking feedback, and through repetition, it was not easy first. But by the time I graduated, you look at feedback as this beautiful gift. And it's because of yes, there's certain things that I'm attached to. And how many John Fitch's are there in the world? I mean, I'm sure there's some people with a similar psychographic as me, but that's not going to get me an award-winning film. And so just exposing yourself to more and more feedback early on, I think, humbles you and gets you out of your own head with all of those influences, because someone will resonate with something that you might think is not that exciting. Whereas you can see a pattern of something your deep—like to your points earlier, something around, oh, my birthday happened, and I had a super-good day, and we shot that one scene, and that scene's got to be in the film. And unless I get checked by a team or early viewers, early testers, that could be a poor decision on the quality of the story. And so, we are in the art of helping people, I think, quickly adapt, thanks to the gift of feedback. Douglas: It's amazing, right? It’s interesting. Even if your time off isn't giving you the answers, like we can rely on the perception of others, the perspective of others. And I want to come back to this notion of, I feel like a lot of this is borne out of kind of tech burnout and getting in these situations where people are overworked and they need to kind of step away from things so they can do better work. It's almost like a rejuvenation and a recovery, to use the athlete metaphor. If you train all the time, you'll just wear yourself out. There has to be time for recovery. So that's why people do the sauna, the ice bath, the compression sleeves. Take a day off. Take a week off. Heal. And I've been thinking a bit lately about this notion of flipping the switch from active to inactive or time on to time off. And I've personally found it a bit difficult just to completely flip that switch into the other mode, and it’s because we kind of prime our nervous system and our mind and our habitual states, the things that we kind of get acclimated to, and how we spend our days are based off of behaviors. And as we were kind of going through this transition for moving more and more things, pretty much going to a 100 percent virtual facilitation company versus a 15, 20 percent virtual company, it required a lot of my work and attention, and I poured myself into it, partly to support the community, but also to make sure the company stay alive and survive this transition. And now that I've got a lot of things in place and I'm confident about where we are, I’ve started to pull back. And as I've done so, it's been great to have some of that time off and to be able to shut off and think about other things and come back to it. The other thing I've noticed is that it's a continuum. You know, if you look at a thermometer, if you put a thermometer into boiling water and you turn the stove off, it's going to take a while for that thermometer to get back down. You can't just go straight into the other mode. And so I'm just curious if you thought much about these, that it's around these kind of this rest time and even making use of it might require some transition. It's not just like, let's just go do it. Okay, I'm doing it. It's like I need to almost, like, train myself to be able to function in that mode properly. John: You threw the perfect slow-motion softball pitch to me right now. This is the whole thing that the backstory that led to Time Off. To answer this is, again, we put together these two words. I had not come across it before. Not going to be—I can't say I invented it. They're just two separate words that we put together. But rest ethic. So work ethic for me is like someone with a solid work ethic, they're not just carelessly driving themselves for no reason. They put high intention. They're good at prioritization, decision making, etc. They follow up with what they're going to do. Intentional work ethic, to your point, yes, to get the most out of rest, it's going to take some intention. And so those things you're feeling are real. And I learned, and I'm going to simplify it, and I think each person has to figure out their own transition art. But when I was at Animal Ventures, a firm that did prototyping with a lot of supply chain automation work, my two business partners were the ones that opened me up to this whole concept of time off. And our model of time on, time off by no means is copy, paste at other cultures. But based on how we worked and what we did, we were able to establish a model where everyone worked for three months. So think about a quarter. And then after that quarter, you had a month mini sabbatical, and we had to stagger those. And a lot of people hear that and they're like, “Oh, that sounds amazing.” Well, we had to really design that out and practice it. And before that month off, there was a lot of preparation, not just like, “Hey, I'm going to go away for a month.” You decentralized your functions as a person. Each person has responsibilities and things they handle, and those would be documented, and in a way, diversified across a few other people that would be still in their time-on mode. Or you would think about ways to automate it more. So we were all—again, it was this intentional thing you would do. It was like the time-off prep so that it wasn't like all of a sudden massive switch off and then shit falls through the cracks and things aren't operationalized. So a lot of intention. And then also—so then you’d go have your time off, and if you did that prep right—you really were off, and you didn't have to freak out during your time off because your functions were not only handed over, they were going to be upgraded because that was one of the points, is new people get a hold of those functions, and they're able to poke holes in it and be like, “Oh, that's not that efficient. We could do better.” Or a new technology comes out in your month that you're off, and the people upgrade the operations. And then, let's say I would come back from that that mini sabbatical. I had a re-acclimation period, sort of like altitude adjustment, where it wasn’t just like I came back on Monday, and it’s boom, full blow. The last one I had done at the firm when I was still there was a week-long acclimation period where I’m not necessarily back to work. I’m understanding what has changed. That was one category. The second of work was I was giving in sharing my epiphanies on how my position, my department, my product ownership, whatever it was, I mean, that time off gave me a lot of epiphanies. And so I would share, “Hey, here's how I think it could be better,” and we would workshop that. And then the people that handled my functions while I was gone would then report to me saying, “Hey, we ran your functions while you were away, and we upgraded it.” And so I had to now—I had literally an upgraded playbook for the position. And so all of us were upgrading the business-culture software through this time off. And so the ramp up and the ramp down is often never practiced. And that's important. And I think a beautiful analogy is you're an athlete and you warm up, then you do—well, in that case, the hardcore work, in this case, the hard core time off—and then you have a cool down, and you re-acclimate. And that's really important to do. One of the micro tips in the book that I'll give you an example of a mistake I made where I didn't take my own advice. We interviewed Tiffany Shlain. She came up with this concept called the Tech Shabbat, where, for a 24-hour period, you don't interact with any screens. And it's a really powerful exercise, especially given that we work in screens a lot. I find that it slows down time. In a way, I get bored on purpose, and it's just really fun what you end up filling that time with. And what's funny is the first time I did one, I did not take that advice of prep and then acclimate. And it was awesome. I was like, time slowed down. I’m enjoying no screen time for a weekend. And when I get back to my phone on Sunday, my iPad, and I open it up, I have, like, 25 missed calls and all these texts, and it was from my mom and her friends because my mom is so used to chatting with me on the weekends. She was like, “All his devices are off. All his phones off.” She thought I got kidnapped and was freaking out. And then that stressed me out. And so I could have easily prepped her. And that’s just a little micro example of, great, you have some intentional time off planned; make sure to prepare for it. And then, also, integrate yourself in a meaningful way back, because it is hard to go from a very rested rhythm and state and then suddenly just drop it in. It’s like you call it boot-up time in a lot of the meeting culture at work you do, Douglas. And I think there's boot-up time, but there's also—what would it be, boot down?— to also get prepared again to take time off. Douglas: Yeah. You had to open, explore, and close, right? John: Yeah. So that's something that can be applied on the micro and macro as well. And it's helpful, too, because in the time off, there's not only the gift of recharging and building your enthusiasm back up, but you're going to have—again, it's an important part of the creative process. It's called incubation. And then following incubation is illumination. That's the aha. That's the moment of clarity. That's like you've zoomed out peregrine-falcon-level view. You're looking at things differently because you're detached for once. And that's when we unlearn and rethink things. Douglas: Yeah, I love that. And it also reminds me of not only do we need to prepare ourselves, we also need to prepare others. So setting those expectations and making sure that others aren't going to be negatively impacted by—because if it's completely selfish, then it's not going to necessarily serve us when we go to do our deep work again, because we usually have to collaborate with others or others are going to be the benefactors of our work. And so I think it's really awesome that the book shows this path where people can be really, really intentional about their rest ethic, so how they help inform others, how they help prepare others. I think it's really wise. John: Yeah. And it's important, too, for leaders to—and I know you and I've talked about, especially in the art of facilitation, read the room and be aware. For I think leaders to feel more confident, I mean, just based on some of the early readers who’ve been reaching out to me that are in a position of leadership and influence, their biggest question after being won over on the importance of time off is, “Okay, now I need to work with my team to figure out what our more-detailed time-off strategies and operations are.” And that's awesome, and I'm glad that they're thinking about that, and they'll work through it, because until that intention and design is put forward, the time off and rest ethic in a business context is generally just a short little clause in vacation policy. Whereas it can be so much more manageable, I think, and smart, if it's a daily, a weekly, a monthly, it's not just this, like, “Oh, yeah, you decide when you take time off, and here's our policy.” To actually embrace it and to workshop it and to figure it out for the context of that business is something we hope leaders think about after they read it, because it expands that definition that time off is not just vacation and mai tais on a beach. I mean, our sub chapters are things like sleep, solitude, exercise, reflexion, play, which you and I talk a lot about. And then also our relationship to technology. And the last thing I'll say that I'd be curious to get your ping-pong, back and forth. I think the most mind-blowing thing that we uncovered in the opening section, which is called “Time Off Throughout History,” it’s like 100,000-foot view of humanity’s relationship to work and leisure, and we found we kind of knocked the dust off of this brilliant thought series from Aristotle, who talked about this concept of noble leisure. And actually, the word school, which goes back to, I think it was pronounced schola or scala, meant leisure. They looked at it as what we did in our leisure time, which nowadays we would call extracurricular or volunteer or play time or hobby time, that was the most respected thing humans did. It was noble because in those moments we would think to ourselves what’s possible, what’s a better society, we would share, we care about the environment. Literally, because of noble leisure, they invented mathematics and philosophy, these things that propel humanity forward. And why I got excited about that is he said that one day all of culture would have the opportunity to revisit noble leisure because we would eventually automate the mundane. And you and I think a lot about artificial intelligence and how that’s impacting the future of work. And we’re helping companies think about rescaling, retooling their teams to be more focused on these human skills, these soft skills, however you want to call them. But I just get excited because I agree that Aristotle, his advice of noble leisure, we're at a time in human history where that's not so much of a pipe dream anymore. You could argue that once, who knows, a decade, two decades from now, with automation—and you would know more than I on the accuracy—that real humanness, that noble leisure is kind of what’s left for us, the more that mundane is not only better suited for machines, but I think that helps humans get back to those quality moments. Douglas: So, John, when we’re thinking about how facilitators can make use of these concepts and maybe help teams perform better or work better together, what comes to mind? What recommendations do you have to have better meetings or to just be better facilitators, in light of what you've kind of uncovered in the book Time Off? John: So, I mentioned some of the sub chapters that are in there, of the components that make up a rest ethic, things like reflection, solitude, play. And I think that's really important to incorporate those types of practices into your workshop, your meeting, because in all of those activities that I just mentioned, you see people in a lot of joy. And for example, you and I have been in some workshops, and when I was working on the reflection chapter in the book, there was this question that is in there around, when was the last time you felt like a kid, or what activity do you do that you feel the most childlike while you're doing it? And when you ask that in a professional setting, people’s answers, they light up, and there’s that inner child that’s still in there. And that question—let’s say, we’re brought in. It’s a serious problem, and we've got to figure it out, and we're there to facilitate it and workshop it. And it's definitely serious, and we've got to do the work, and we're going to have an awesome workshop. We're going to produce a prototype. We're going to produce an artifact. We're going to drive outcomes. Pretty serious stuff. But if you sprinkle in these moments of what I'll call time off from the deep work, from the actual serious thing, it actually improves the overall process because, again, it goes down to that creative process. You're leaving some time for incubation and illumination, because then after that, you have verification, which is all about, okay, actually doing the work to see if that idea is worth a damn. And in the first one—I mentioned it was four phases—is preparation, which is also deep work as you prepare to do things again. And so if you implement time-off practices into any of your workshops, look at them as investments and illumination and incubation for your participants. And also, it helps them rebuild enthusiasm if you go for a walk or you just say, “Hey, we take breaks seriously,” because I've been around facilitators that I don't know what their reasons are, but they don't incorporate meaningful breaks and rest within the workshop. And you can tell when it's 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., people are just like, they're done. They're checked out. It's like forcing someone to just continue hill sprints over and over. And so that would be the first thing is ask yourself what moments in our workshop could benefit from incubation and illumination? And have fun with it, and whatever vocabulary you choose to use, I think your participants are going to appreciate that time off, because I think when we think about workshops, meetings, seminars, conferences, the art of gathering, that can be tiring. And I think with facilitators that incorporate more rest, people can be less intimidated by it all. So that'd be the first thing, Douglas. The second thing is facilitators—and you and I are facilitators. We do a lot of facilitation, and we know people that do more facilitation than we do. It is hard, and it is a lot of energy that is used to hold space and pay attention and document and solve problems and deal with conflict. It is no joke. And you could look at time off as time management, but I've been thinking about it more and more as energy management. And so I think to do your best work as a facilitator, you also deserve those intentional moments of time off to not only make sure you don't get overworked and overwhelmed and burned out, but you'll benefit, too. Maybe by stepping away for once, you'll completely rethink one of your workshop modules; or you'll reflect on some feedback that someone gave you, and you'll level up, or you'll come up with an entirely new idea for a workshop or an activity. But I just wanted to make sure to say that, I mean, today you and I were wrapping up a design sprint and then doing prototyping, and there is definitely a part of me that's like, “Yeah, I still have a few more things to do. But my internal compass is also talking to me, saying ‘That was intense, and you can now go into the garden and cook a nice meal and rest and be back at it tomorrow.’” So those are two things I would think about, and try to reframe it in your mind from a place of starting to eliminate this idea that you're not effective if you're not working. I think that's something society is unlearning—I hope our book helps—is this whole concept of visible busyness. Just because you’re active doesn’t mean you’re effective. Whereas, I think a lot of people assume it’s true. And once you reframe and see rest as productive because it helps with recharge and illumination and incubation, you’ll start taking it as serious as your time on. Douglas: It's also, I believe, in the serendipity of if you can manage to do those things when you most need them, I think it'd be much more effective because it's timely. And it's sort of like eating before you. You're just ravenously hungry. And I found the co-facilitator has been an interesting way to have those micro moments where I can have some time off. I know how to be 100 percent on the entire workshop, and I found that to be, those workshops are much less draining. John: I’m so glad you remixed it to that. I've been thinking a lot about that lately, Douglas. You and I have co-facilitated a lot, and I think that’s a really important message for the future of work as facilitation becomes more and more relevant, especially now in virtual work, too. Just having multiple facilitators not only provides that time off but you have a skill set that gives you strengths in certain activities. Let's say there's a meeting narrative. Let's just go with the open, explore, close. There's parts of your personality where you're really great at the explore and the close, and maybe I'm just, like, a master of the open. And if we're aligned as a team of facilitators, each one of us can be in our zone of genius more. And not only does it allow us to have these interstitial moments of “in the zone” and then kind of backing off and relaxing, it allows us to just do our best work. And I know what’s been really cool when both of us are co-facilitating: in my time off from facilitating, I'm observing you, which I'm able to give you feedback that is through the lens of a facilitator. Likewise, you've done the same for me. And so if you’ve been going it alone as a facilitator, hey, hats off to you. Deep respect. But try out co-facilitating. Douglas: I think we’re at time, John, so I’m going to close it here and say thanks so much for being here today. It’s been so fantastic riffing with you. It's always fun chatting with you. And I think we should let the listeners know how they can find you and the facilitation work you do as well as where can they find the book? John: Totally. So if you want to talk about meeting culture and prototyping and the maker movement and all things running awesome meetings that are magical, voltagecontrol.com. You'll find me on there somewhere. And in terms of the book Time Off, if you just type it in Amazon or Google, I’m sure it’ll come up. Timeoffbook.com will send you to Amazon as well. And other than that, Douglas, it's been an honor to not only talk about this, but to stay in touch as friends and colleagues throughout many years now. So, I'm pumped you're doing a podcast, you ask really good questions, and I'm honored to be on the guest list. Douglas: Thanks for joining. And we'll definitely encourage everyone to get a copy of Time Off because it's really fantastic and it's super timely. John: Thank you. Outro: Thanks for joining me for another episode of Control the Room. Don't forget to subscribe to receive updates when new episodes are released. If you want more, head over to our blog, where I post weekly articles and resources about working better together, voltagecontrol.com.

FreightWaves reporter Linda Baker interviews Don Burnette the Co-Founder and CEO of Kodiak Robotics during FreightWaves LIVE @ HOME.Apple PodcastsSpotifyRewatch the LIVE streamMore FreightWaves Podcasts

FreightWaves reporter Linda Baker interviews Don Burnette the Co-Founder and CEO of Kodiak Robotics during FreightWaves LIVE @ HOME.Apple PodcastsSpotifyRewatch the LIVE streamMore FreightWaves Podcasts

Moderator John Brock, III, MD Professor and Director, Division of Pediatric Urology Debater - Pro(s) Richard Yu, MD,PHD Harvard Medical School Mohan Gundeti, MD The University of Chicago Debater - Con(s) Linda Baker, MD Professor of Urology The University of Texas Southwestern H. Rushton, Jr., MD Children's National Medical Center-The George Washington University Medical Center

We’re concluding our coverage of Trimble’s in.site conference 2019 we talk about Amazon’s big change to their algorithm, Linda Baker has the conference beat from Crawford St., and we’re joined by guests from Trimble, TriumphPay, FleetWorthy, and more. Stay tuned until the end to find out how to get What The Truck?!? at your event.Rewatch  the live show

Today on WTT we take a deep dive into the Idaho Hemp Trucker fiasco with journalist, Linda Baker, CEO Jacob Findlay has some huge news concerning FullBay, McLeod announces two new products, plus all the latest headlines, Big Deal, Little Deal, and the very first Comment Section Rodeo! All this and more now on WTT?!?

On Time for Success - Business Owner Moms Edition We are interviewing Linda Baker independent business owner with Damsel in Defense Get to know Linda: Wife, mother, grandmother, volunteer, full time caregiver of a special needs child, and entrepreneur Member of BNI St. Charles, O’Fallon Chamber of Commerce and an affiliate with the St. Charles National Association of Realtors Loves spending time with family, reading, writing, walking, cooking, sewing and watching football and soccer Been with Damsel In Defense for 15 months Lives in St. Charles and grew up in St. Louis Passionate about educating, equipping, and empowering women with non-lethal tools for protection and enjoy doing speaking engagements on situational awareness and the techniques used for protection

Linda Baker, R.N., C.H.T. is a Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapy Trainer who has studied various forms of healing including Reiki, the Reconnection and Pranic Healing and has taught classes in Alchemical Hypnotherapy in the United States and Japan.. Growing up in Massachusetts, Linda has always felt a connection with God and spirituality and began her career as a psychiatric nurse. After discovering Alchemical Hypnotherapy in 1984 Linda has been working with her clients from a more spiritual place to encourage growth and enable healing. She has authored two books; Soul Contracts: How They Affect Your Life and Your Relationships - Past Life Therapy to Change Your Present Life and The Bridge Between Worlds - The Miracle of Following the Heart. She has additionallyco-authored Alchemical Scents: Integrating Hypnosis and Essential Oils. There are a lot of books on affirmations and creating the reality you want; this book is about what is blocking you from manifesting your heart's desires. It includes stories, exercises and information to raise your vibrational energy so that you come into alignment with your true soul self. If you were inspired by people such as Caroline Myss, Abraham and Gregg Brayden, you will find Train Your Brain - Change Your Life to be another great tool that can help you to achieve what your heart desires. http://www.innersourceseattle.com/InnersourceSeattle/home.html

In this special CubCast/ScoutCast episode, Amy and Bryan chat with Linda Baker, Program Vice President of the Northeast Region, about preparing both your Webelos Den and your Scout troop for the Webelos-to-Scout transition plan. Linda is currently working on the task force updating the Cub Scout handbooks and is a local Troop Committee Chair, so […] The post March 2018 – The Webelos Den and Your Scout Troop appeared first on BSA Podcasts.

Sign up to watch the film "Real Immunity" for FREE! www.realimmunity.org Homeoprophylaxis - www.worldwidechoice.org TO WATCH REAL IMMUNITY: CLICK HERE Homeopathy  http://learntruehealth.com/homeopathy/ Homeopathy effectively treats fever and several other conditions. To teach us more about what homeopathy is, I’m so thrilled Cilla Whatcott is again on the show for the third time to explain to us everything you need to know about this amazing method of natural healing. Discovering Homeopathy Cilla Whatcott has guested on episode 137 and episode 155 where she elaborated on how her homeopathy journey started. She describes herself as a classical Homeopath who has four children — three were adopted from Russia, China, and Taiwan, and one is biological. She recalls all three kids had problems like asthma, kidney reflux, and migraines. One of her daughters, in particular, had a vaccine injury and suffered from aseptic meningitis.  So early on, Cilla Whatcott realized that it was ultimately up to her to take care of her kids. A ray of hope happened when Cilla Whatcott’s pediatrician sent her to a Homeopath. Eventually, her children’s health improved considerably. Because of that, Cilla Whatcott decided to study homeopathy. So instead of pursuing a career in dance after applying for a Fullbright scholarship in Europe, she studied in homeopathic school for four years.  “Initial research just led me into vaccine science. Looking at the studies and attending conferences, it was just asking all the deeper questions about vaccines,” said Cilla Whatcott. “After I attended homeopathy school, I discovered homeoprophylaxis and recognized an amazing alternative to educate the immune system.” What A Fever Means Cilla Whatcott has a new video documentary coming out called Real Immunity.  The 2-part documentary one of the topics extensively covered is the subject regarding fever. Among the experts, Cilla Whatcott included in the film is Dr. Debra Gambrell who I have guested on my podcast’s episode 164. I generally know to have a fever is good because it is a distinct signal to warn you that something is going on in your body. Some people deal with fevers by soaking in an ice bath. And some people wrap themselves up to sweat out the heat which was what my father used to do. In my episode with Debra Gambrell, she links fevers to neurological development, and that is a necessary function of development. And when we suppress a fever, we’re inhibiting the brain and all the nerves in the body. Heavy metals in the body also do the same thing. That’s why we end up dealing with memory issues. Cilla Whatcott also shares that Naturopath Dr. Kendra Becker is also in the film. And she gives the cutest example of first-time fever with the baby and how the parents are ready to lose their mind. She narrates that once parents come out of the clinic after 72 hours, they usually look like they walked on fire. “Fever is a natural mechanism that nature put in place, for us to create natural viral antibodies. So when you have a fever, your body is producing national antibodies to fight whatever the infection is. And then provide you with lifelong immunity to that particular virus,” said Cilla Whatcott.  What A Fever Does Cilla Whatcott adds that a fever also resets the gut. A fever resets our system, develops antibodies, and discharges toxins. It is a keynote of that circular process exercising the immune system. It is the basis of building a lifelong immunity. Fever And Drugs To suppress a fever with drugs, Cilla Whatcott says we’re only driving the pathology deeper into the organism. So in the film, Cilla Whatcott featured something she calls the health helix which offers a lot of information and knowledge value about fevers and how to treat it. “If you suppress the fever, discharge, and the symptoms, it is driven deeper into the system, and you see a deeper pathology,” explains Cilla Whatcott. Other Conditions Cilla Whatcott says that another issue is how we commonly deal with asthma and respiratory symptoms. She said we might see it go deeper into behavioral symptoms like ADHD, depression, and anxiety. We will eventually see the trajectory of health going downwards. “If you remove suppressive toxins and have clean water, air, food and an emotional environment that is supportive, then you have all the components to regenerate,” said Cilla Whatcott. Homeoprophylaxis Like what Cilla Whatcott stressed in two of our past episodes, homeoprophylaxis is a subset of homeopathy where they use different remedies. It is utilized for a lot of health conditions in many countries. Highly effective with no side effects, it has no deaths, and it doesn’t compromise innate immunity. “It is completely unprofitable for pharma, inexpensive to make and easy to distribute. Even unlicensed personnel can distribute it,” Cilla Whatcott said. “It applies to all genders, all ages, all species and mutated viruses. So when something mutates and a new vaccine has to be developed, it’s not the same compared to homeoprophylaxis. Between effectiveness, safety, and eco-suitable, you can’t beat it.” My past guest, Dr. Carolyn Dean on episode 227, has the same conviction. She encourages people to continue the fight in implementing safe and natural alternatives to treat various health conditions.  Truth About Vaccines Those who have been following my podcast would recall that I mention Ty Bollinger’s “The Truth About Vaccines” video documentary. A lot of people are afraid to watch it, perhaps because they aren’t emotionally ready to learn the truth. But the documentary is something everyone should watch because it teaches us how to build immunity. In my opinion, Ty Bollinger did a fabulous job. The video includes interviews with celebrated experts. Educating people to veer away from vaccines is hard work, but some doctors strive to push that cause. I had Dr. Paul Thomas in episode 224, who has over 13,000 patients in his Portland, Oregon practice. He says most of his patients are unvaccinated. Dr. Paul Thomas shared that during the most massive influenza outbreak they had recently, not one of his kids got the flu. He teaches the patients what food to eat and not to eat. And to help oversee his patients, he has pediatrician Dr. Linda Baker in his office who does homeoprophylaxis, who incidentally, is a colleague of Cilla Whatcott. “Ten or twelve years ago, I was teaching Vaccine Information. It was so non-controversial at that time when a local community college allowed me to teach the course,” recalls Cilla Whatcott. “Along came a time when the community college said we couldn’t hold this class anymore. Because they were getting pressure from the health department. So now, when Cilla Whatcott teaches in different venues, it is a welcome surprise that more parents now know a lot of information. Apparently, more parents now do their research. “The societal shift was fascinating. It’s a result of the internet, a result of people seeing injuries, and being motivated to step and do what best for their kids. Things are changing,” said Cilla Whatcott. Mission Behind Real Immunity Documentary To be able to provide more information to the public, Cilla Whatcott also made a 2-part video documentary called Real Immunity. Her goal was to make something empowering and supportive because she genuinely believes that to raise consciousness, you need to associate with others on the same wavelength as you are. And that strengthens us in such a way as to bring others up. “And fear is one of the lowest rungs on the ladder of consciousness. Fear doesn’t motivate us and instead, squelches us,” said Cilla Whatcott. “So what I wanted to do is make a film that first and foremost, dispelled fear and teach people how to access that inner wisdom, the intelligence of life or spirit.” Cilla Whatcott also wanted to provide method tools through her film. She says everybody’s toolkit is unique to them. So to do that, we need to do the research. The underlying theme of the movie means that we can’t rely on someone else to take care of our health because we are born with the gift of immunity. First part of the documentary is called, “Quested for Real Immunity,” while the second part is called, “Passage To Real Immunity.” The video will be free for 36 hours, and it will be available in DVD form. There is also an opportunity for people to bring the film to their hometown through the Real Immunity website. People can input their zip code to search for the nearest local theater. A theater screening of the film can be organized provided it reaches the minimum number ticket sales. Plus, the one who was able to raise the minimum ticket sales will be given 5% of the proceeds. Making The Film Cilla Whatcott says that the visual and auditory message has a powerful impact. She has taught for years in the community. But she realized there is no way she could educate in the same way compared to making a film. That became her motivation to teach through a new medium. She originally planned to divide the documentary to seven or ten parts. Then the series shifted to four parts and now finalized to two parts. The first episode is what Cilla Whatcott described as a foundation episode and scheduled to launch on February 22 this year. It dispels the fear and talks about intuition. It also takes a more in-depth look at what makes a competent practitioner and a good patient. The second episode coming out later this year dives into methods. Cilla Whatcott clarifies that she’s not going to tell the viewer what to do but instead utilize interviews with experts to talk about Chinese medicine, functional medicine, gemmotherapy, homeopathy, and homeoprophylaxis. “It’s up to the viewer to explore and make those choices. I feel strongly about free urgency. Rather than expecting people to look towards someone else, and say you need to do it. Providing choices is better,” Cilla Whatcott said. Cilla Whatcott also made a special mention of Dr. Jeanne Ohm from the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association. According to Cilla Whatcott, Dr. Jeanne Ohm dives into what is the intelligence of life. She is an excellent resource person if anyone wants to get more information on making the right medical choices for kids. “More than anything, I want to give parents support as the experts for their child. And that they can trust their choices because they have their child’s welfare at heart,” said Cilla Whatcott.  Challenges In Making The Film Cilla Whatcott shares that there are a lot of hits and misses in the making of the film. She went as far as taking an online film course and took time to look for videographers. It was hard soliciting funds, getting the right videographer and marketing team but Cilla Whatcott says the effort was worth it. “I had great relationships with really fabulous people that I respected. That was the easy part. And it is exciting to know that I completed something I envisioned,” said Cilla Whatcott. Power Of Film Among the experts Cilla Whatcott included in the film, she said the interviews with Dr. Andrew Wakefield was most interesting. British gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield earned the media moniker, “Father of Anti-Vaccine Movement,” after his controversial research linking MMR vaccine and autism came out. In Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s paper, he mentioned his discovery of measles virus in the bowels of children and testimonials of mothers who saw changes in their kids after being vaccinated with the MMR vaccine. His paper suggested the need for more studies and recommended that the vaccine is given separately. A series of events occurred and Dr. Andrew Wakefield eventually lost his license to practice in the United Kingdom. He eventually moved to the United States and began other types of research on autism apart from making films. One of the films Dr. Andrew Wakefield made was titled, “Vaxed.” It exposed the fraud that took place within the CDC and the MMR study. Dr. Andrew Wakefield also made the film, “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis,” which is about an autistic teenager who was given medication for his condition and the hospital would not take him off the medication even if it had adverse effects. To end the suffering, the mother finally killed her child and tried to kill herself. The mother was later on charged in court for first-degree murder. During the progression of the case, the prosecuting attorney found out Dr. Andrew Wakefield was filming the child the whole time. The lawyer asked for footage and eventually, the charges were dropped against the mother. Bio Cilla Whatcott is a board-certified classical homeopath with a B.A. from Arizona State University, a diploma from the four-year professional program at Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy, and a Ph.D. in Homeopathy.  She is an instructor at Normandale Community College and the author of“There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis,” and co-author of “The Solution – Homeoprophylaxis.” Whatcott is also the executive director of Worldwide Choice. She likewise offers individualized homeoprophylaxis programs for adults and children.  Whatcott has been a guest lecturer in France, Scotland, Ireland, Indonesia, the USA, and Canada, and featured in episode 7 of The Truth about Vaccines. She has organized and directed international conferences in 2015 and 2016 about homeoprophylaxis.  Whatcott also has published articles in several periodicals and magazines. She likewise has a certification as a CEASE therapist for reversing vaccine injury. Get Connected With Dr. Cilla Whatcott! 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In our latest podcast, Dr. Ramona Alaggia speaks with Dr. Linda Baker about her journey to incorporate resilience into trauma-informed care for children exposed to domestic abuse. Renowned for her pioneering and innovative work, Dr. Baker is the Learning Director at the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University. Listen as Dr. Baker offers useful case examples and reflects on current practice, urging and inspiring us to change the way we work. To learn more, visit http://makresiliencematter.ca.

Linda Baker, R.N., C.H.T. is a Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapy Trainer who has studied various forms of healing including Reiki, the Reconnection and Pranic Healing and has taught classes in Alchemical Hypnotherapy in the United States and Japan.. Growing up in Massachusetts, Linda has always felt a connection with God and spirituality and began her career as a psychiatric nurse. After discovering Alchemical Hypnotherapy in 1984 Linda has been working with her clients from a more spiritual place to encourage growth and enable healing. She has authored two books; Soul Contracts: How They Affect Your Life and Your Relationships - Past Life Therapy to Change Your Present Life and The Bridge Between Worlds - The Miracle of Following the Heart. She has additionally co-authored Alchemical Scents: Integrating Hypnosis and Essential Oils.

It was suppose to be yarn for socks, but....  How often do we say that as spinners.  If you have found a specific project that you want to make from hand spun yarn, and you want some tips on how to spin the yarn the right size, listen to this podcast. My blog can be found here. I now have a website studio on Artfire which is called ZavagantStudio.  I have lovely fibers ready to spin, and even a sampler box of fibers, that allow you to spin a variety of fibers.  And for the knitters and weavers that listen in who haven't learn to spin yet, I have my handspun yarn for sale.  Please take a few minutes to check the studio and my products. All music today is from Mevio's Music Alley  formerly the Podsafe Music Network. The wonderful interlude music is by Alimagne and is called Solo. The closing song, Let's Eat Home is by Linda Baker

For our final Biznik Live interview in the series "Surviving & Thriving Amidst Economic Uncertainty", I'll be interviewing Van Jones, author of the hot and crucially important book 'The Green Collar Economy'. Please join us in the 2nd half of the show by calling or text-chatting in your questions. "You couldn't create a better advocate for the green-collar movement than Van Jones."-Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine"More than any other single figure, [Van Jones] has ushered the phrase 'green-collar jobs' into the political lexicon -- and economic reality." - Linda Baker, FastCompany.comVan Jones is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. He is also the author of The Green Collar Economy (Harper One 2008), which is e

For our final Biznik Live interview in the series "Surviving & Thriving Amidst Economic Uncertainty", I'll be interviewing Van Jones, author of the hot and crucially important book 'The Green Collar Economy'. Please join us in the 2nd half of the show by calling or text-chatting in your questions. "You couldn't create a better advocate for the green-collar movement than Van Jones."-Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine"More than any other single figure, [Van Jones] has ushered the phrase 'green-collar jobs' into the political lexicon -- and economic reality." - Linda Baker, FastCompany.comVan Jones is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. He is also the author of The Green Collar Economy (Harper One 2008), which is e